In my experience, and after getting some useful answers from peeps on the forum, I'd say check if your reboot times are faster than cold boot, if they are, this seems to be normal for SSD's in general. Apparently, UEFI performs checks on cold boot, and sometimes that might take some time until it's ready to load the kernel...
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk d: /scannow (it will begin a disk check)
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Restart
Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc
Back to Windows, open a CMD window as administrator and type:
sfc /scannow
If it finds any corrupted files, fixing or not, reboot and run again
Then run
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
and
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Can you please point out exactly which drives I am supposed to format and how to do it? Is it just the red X button? If so this button only appears for Disk 1 100MB EFI system Partition. The red X disappears for the Disk 1 499mb Recovery partition. I just don't want to format the wrong disk and lose my data, I have pretty much everything on my C disk.
Yeah chkdsk took just a few minutes, no corruption detected with the other scans.
From your post #8 you have drive 1 (With D:) that once had Windows on it.
If D: only has data on it, you can clean and reconfigure the drive.
Copy all files and folders from D: to a folder on C: (the windows drive). Once you have copied all data from D: to C: you can clean drive 1.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the data drive number. It's probably 1)
select disk n (replace n by the data drive number obtained with list disk)
clean
create part primary
select part 1
format fs=NTFS quick
assign letter=D
exit (to exit diskpart)
Now you should have one and only one partition (D:) on drive 1.
Move the data files you had previously backed up on C: to D:
Ok thanks-do the disk names on diskpart correspond to the disk names on disk management? Is there any other way I can double check aside from physically disconnecting my hard drive which I'd rather not do. Or do I not need to?From your post #8 you have drive 1 (With D:) that once had Windows on it.
If D: only has data on it, you can clean and reconfigure the drive.
Copy all files and folders from D: to a folder on C: (the windows drive). Once you have copied all data from D: to C: you can clean drive 1.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the data drive number. It's probably 1)
select disk n (replace n by the data drive number obtained with list disk)
clean
create part primary
select part 1
format fs=NTFS quick
assign letter=D
exit (to exit diskpart)
Now you should have one and only one partition (D:) on drive 1.
Move the data files you had previously backed up on C: to D:
The one that appears under the Help button for some partitions.
The two drives are same size, have same partitions but have partitions on a different order.
So you can check the drive partitions order
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the data drive number. It's probably 1)
select disk n (replace n by the data drive number obtained with list disk)
list part ( *See explanation below)
clean
create part primary
select part 1
format fs=NTFS quick
assign letter=D
exit (to exit diskpart)
The partitions of drive 1 should be in this order
- Recovery partition (400M)
- System partition (100M)
- Primary (930G)
There is also a Reserved partition (16M) not shown on Disk Manager that can be between Recovery and System or between System and Primary.
To be bulletproof, you can shutdown, detach the SATA or power cable of your Windows drive, boot from a Win 10 USB installation drive and at the Windows Setup screen, press Shift+F10 simultaneously to open a command line prompt.
Then type the diskpart CMDs above.
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